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Schoolhouse Gothic

Haunted Hallways and Predatory Pedagogues in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature and Scholarship

By: Sherry R. Truffin

£29.99

The Schoolhouse Gothic draws on Gothic metaphors—curses of power inequities, schools as traps—to interrogate American education. It suggests something sinister lies behind the academy's benevolent exterior, producing paranoia, violence, and monstrosity.

The Schoolhouse Gothic draws on Gothic metaphors—curses of power inequities, schools as traps—to interrogate American education. It suggests something sinister lies behind the academy’s benevolent exterior, producing paranoia, violence, and monstrosity.

Making the Stage

Essays on the Changing Concept of Theatre, Drama, and Performance

Edited By: Ann C. Hall

£34.99

In an increasingly technological and isolated culture, theatre seems a primitive art form. Yet these essays reveal that theatre not only survives but defines the vital political discussions prohibited by a manipulated media.

H. G. Wells

Interdisciplinary Essays

Edited By: Steven McLean

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H. G. Wells is known for his ‘scientific romances,’ but he was a polymath. This collection of new essays examines his varied writings, from works like The Time Machine to lesser-known novels, assessing his lasting philosophical and political impact.

New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism

Edited By: Andrea Campbell

£29.99

These essays on ecofeminist literary criticism highlight the intersections of environment, race, class, and gender oppression. Analyzing authors from Kingsolver to Nwapa, this collection expands the discussion to a global scale and environmental justice.

Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries

Edited By: Pavel Drábek, Klára Kolinská, Matthew Nicholls

£34.99

This book explores the cultural notion of “Shakespeare.” His collaborators are not only his contemporaries but all who give his works new life as plays, films, and novels, collaborating in both a literal and figurative sense.

Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns

Essays on Fiction and Culture

Edited By: Penny Gay, Judith Johnston

£34.99

Essays by international scholars explore Victorian writers like Dickens and Eliot in their cultural context. The collection then examines NeoVictorian returns in contemporary literature and film, revealing the era's ongoing dialogue with the modern world.

New Literatures of Old

Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literature

Edited By: Dídac Llorens-Cubedo, José Ramón Prado-Pérez

£34.99

Artistic creativity is fuelled by dialogues between the past and the present. This book explores how these exchanges become active agents of intervention, creating spaces of dialogue and confrontation when establishing the cultural identity of a community.

Literatures of War

Edited By: Eve Patten, Richard Pine

£39.99

War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.

Sacred Space, Beloved City

Iris Murdoch’s London

By: Cheryl Bove, Anne Rowe

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Explore Iris Murdoch’s London. Essays and guided walks link her plots to real landmarks and routes, revealing how characters experience their surroundings. Illustrated with atmospheric sketches, the book includes a complete glossary of London places from her 26 novels.

Diasporic Literature and Theory – Where Now?

Edited By: Mark Shackleton

£34.99

The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand 'culture' beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.

The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand ‘culture’ beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.

Literary and Cultural Intersections during the Long Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Marianna D’Ezio

£29.99

This collection of essays explores the intersections of public and private life in eighteenth-century Britain, an era of major change. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on canonical works, cultural exchange, fashion, gossip, and gender issues.

Tracing Henry James

Edited By: Melanie H. Ross, Greg W. Zacharias

£44.99

Tracing Henry James brings together 28 essays by established and newer scholars from eight countries. This diverse collection explores James’s shorter and longer fiction, his travel essays, criticism, and letters.

Engaged Romanticism

Romanticism as Praxis

Edited By: Mark Lussier, Bruce Matsunaga

£34.99

Exploring “engaged romanticism” as a practice rather than a historical period, these essays examine how writers deployed their talents to transform the public sphere. This collection sounds the depths of what engaged practice can accomplish, both in its own age and ours.

Henry Fielding In Our Time

Papers Presented at the Tercentenary Conference

Edited By: J. A. Downie

£39.99

Essays by leading scholars offer a cross-section of current approaches to Henry Fielding’s life and writings. This collection explores his famous novels, journalism, and social pamphlets, appealing to students, academics, and readers interested in the novel.

Liminal Spaces

The Double Art of Carol Shields

By: Alex Ramon

£34.99

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of the work of Carol Shields. Arguing against enduring conceptions of Shields’s fiction as celebratory domestic miniaturism, the study presents her work as more expansive and equivocal than has sometimes been recognised, reading her texts as “liminal spaces” situated on a series of formal and thematic borders. Close attention is paid to Shields’s stylistic experimentation, to her subversions of auto/biography and historiography, and to the significance of her critical writing, while works which have previously received very little analysis, such as her early poetry…

Postcolonial Slavery

An Overview of Colonialism’s Legacy

Edited By: Charlotte Baker, Jennifer Jahn

£34.99

Foregrounding the material realities of slavery, these essays explore its legacies and the defiant resistance of runaway slaves, challenging the marginalization of colonial history.

This Watery World

Humans and the Sea

Edited By: Nandita Batra, Vartan P. Messier

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In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Messier and Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. This Watery World reminds us that—onshore and inland—we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea. —Professor Ashton Nichols

Romanticism Gendered

Male Writers as Readers of Women’s Writing in Romantic Correspondence

By: Andrea Fischerová

£39.99

This study examines the letters of the great male Romantics—Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Scott, Shelley, and Wordsworth—to discover their views on women writers. Their correspondence reveals a long list of now-marginalized female authors, offering a new gendered perspective.

Space of a Garden – Space of Culture

Edited By: Grzegorz Gazda, Mariusz Golab

£44.99

This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.

Once upon a Time

Myth, Fairy Tales and Legends in Margaret Atwood’s Writings

Edited By: Sarah A. Appleton

£29.99

Essays by influential scholars explore Margaret Atwood’s use of myth, fairy tales, and archetypal narratives to illuminate her fiction and poetry. This collection demonstrates how Atwood revisions old stories, creating a familiar yet unique reading experience.